Paul Bushkovitch has been Professor of History at Yale University since 1992, having taught there since 1975. His books include The Merchants of Moscow, 1580¿1650 (Cambridge, 1980) and Religion and Society in Russia: The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (1992).
Preface; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Prologue: court politics and reform; 1. Tsar and boyars: structures and values; 2. The ascendancy of Artamon Matveev, 1671
6; 3. The reign of Tsar Fyodor, 1676
82; 4. The regency of Sofia, 1682
9; 5. Peter in power, 1689
99; 6. Peter and the favourites: Golovin and Menshikov, 1699
1706; 7. Poltava and the new gubernias, 1707
9; 8. The Senate and the eclipse of Menshikov, 1709
15; 9. The affair of the tsarevich, 1715
17; 10. The end of Aleksei Petrovich, 1718; Epilogue and conclusion, 1718
25; Bibliography; Index.
